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> {quote:title=FrankGrimes wrote:}{quote}
> Thanks. I'm always attracted to those who enjoy DVD audio commentaries. It's actually a smaller group of people than I first realized.
I like DVD audio commentaries, at least on the really important movies. I really enjoyed the 2 commentary tracks on the Criterion Collection The Thief of Bagdad DVD, found them very interesting.
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From Variety:
*Knightley eyes Columbia's 'Fair Lady'*
Update will retain musical's score and setting
By TATIANA SIEGEL
Columbia Pictures is tuning up a "My Fair Lady" redo, with Keira Knightley in talks to star as the simple Cockney flower girl who is transformed into a lady.
The studio declined comment on casting of the project, being produced by Duncan Kenworthy ("Love Actually," "Notting Hill") and London legit maven Cameron Mackintosh.
CBS Films, which owns the film rights to the Lerner & Loewe musical, will co-produce and Sony will distribute.
While it's being called an update, the film will use the tuner's score and retain its 1912 setting. Where possible, Kenworthy and Mackintosh intend to shoot the film on location in the original London settings of Covent Garden, Drury Lane, Tottenham Court Road, Wimpole Street and the Ascot racecourse. (The 1964 Warner Bros. film was lensed entirely on Hollywood soundstages.)
The filmmakers plan to adapt Alan Jay Lerner's book more fully for the screen by drawing additional material from George Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion," which served as the source material for the musical. The goal is to dramatize the emotional highs and lows of Doolittle as she undergoes the ultimate metamorphosis under the tutelage of Professor Henry Higgins.
"This update will preserve the magic of the musical while fleshing out the characters and bringing 1912 London to life in an authentic and exciting way," said Col co-president Doug Belgrad.
Kenworthy, who worked with Knightley on "Love Actually," said, "With 40 years of hindsight, we're confident that by setting these wonderful characters and brilliant songs in a more realistic context, and by exploring Eliza's emotional journey more fully, we will honor both Shaw and Lerner at the same time as engaging and entertaining contemporary audiences the world over."
Mackintosh, who has produced many of the West End's and Broadway's most successful musicals, including "Cats," "Les Miserables" and "The Phantom of the Opera," said the story of Doolittle's transformation "couldn't be more timely in a contemporary world obsessed with overnight celebrity."
Mackintosh has produced two stage revivals of "My Fair Lady": the first in 1979, with Lerner directing; and a second incarnation, which opened in the West End in 2001 and is now touring the U.S.
"My Fair Lady," with book and lyrics by Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, was first staged in 1956 featuring Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison. Audrey Hepburn and Harrison starred in the Oscar-winning George Cukor-helmed film.
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From Variety:
*Knightley eyes Columbia's 'Fair Lady'*
Update will retain musical's score and setting
By TATIANA SIEGEL
Columbia Pictures is tuning up a "My Fair Lady" redo, with Keira Knightley in talks to star as the simple Cockney flower girl who is transformed into a lady.
The studio declined comment on casting of the project, being produced by Duncan Kenworthy ("Love Actually," "Notting Hill") and London legit maven Cameron Mackintosh.
CBS Films, which owns the film rights to the Lerner & Loewe musical, will co-produce and Sony will distribute.
While it's being called an update, the film will use the tuner's score and retain its 1912 setting. Where possible, Kenworthy and Mackintosh intend to shoot the film on location in the original London settings of Covent Garden, Drury Lane, Tottenham Court Road, Wimpole Street and the Ascot racecourse. (The 1964 Warner Bros. film was lensed entirely on Hollywood soundstages.)
The filmmakers plan to adapt Alan Jay Lerner's book more fully for the screen by drawing additional material from George Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion," which served as the source material for the musical. The goal is to dramatize the emotional highs and lows of Doolittle as she undergoes the ultimate metamorphosis under the tutelage of Professor Henry Higgins.
"This update will preserve the magic of the musical while fleshing out the characters and bringing 1912 London to life in an authentic and exciting way," said Col co-president Doug Belgrad.
Kenworthy, who worked with Knightley on "Love Actually," said, "With 40 years of hindsight, we're confident that by setting these wonderful characters and brilliant songs in a more realistic context, and by exploring Eliza's emotional journey more fully, we will honor both Shaw and Lerner at the same time as engaging and entertaining contemporary audiences the world over."
Mackintosh, who has produced many of the West End's and Broadway's most successful musicals, including "Cats," "Les Miserables" and "The Phantom of the Opera," said the story of Doolittle's transformation "couldn't be more timely in a contemporary world obsessed with overnight celebrity."
Mackintosh has produced two stage revivals of "My Fair Lady": the first in 1979, with Lerner directing; and a second incarnation, which opened in the West End in 2001 and is now touring the U.S.
"My Fair Lady," with book and lyrics by Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe, was first staged in 1956 featuring Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison. Audrey Hepburn and Harrison starred in the Oscar-winning George Cukor-helmed film.
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> {quote:title=FrankGrimes wrote:}{quote}
> It took over a month to get the item I wanted replaced. That was the only problem I have had with them.
In my case it was closer to two months. Like I said, after I shipped back the wrong item, they'd received it but were sitting in their butts doing nothing until I called them to ask about the replacement shipment.
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My one bad experience with Deep Discount was pretty bad... they sent the wrong item, I called them up, they provided a label to return it. So, I ship the item back... weeks go by, and they hadn't bothered to send the proper item (for which I had been charged). I had to call them back to remind me to send the right item.
As for getting them quickly, that's not so much of an issue, I just appreciate decent customer service when they ship the wrong item or something.
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is deep discount still mailing DVDs in padded envelopes?
that was one of the reasons I stopped ordering from them
(also the horrible customer service when they ship you the wrong item)
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> {quote:title=TripleHHH wrote:}{quote}
> I picked up the Skull from Legend Films Directly way b4 the release date...maybe it was cheaper for Paramount to use Legend Films and not Criterion ??
Paramount doesn't have to "use" anyone. Studios don't have to license their movies to anyone if they don't want to. If they do, it's because someone came up with an agreement that was presumably mutually beneficial. And Criterion probably wouldn't want the titles that Legend is picking up.
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Happy B-Day, Rosalind Russell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(June 4, 1907 - Nov. 28, 1976)
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> {quote:title=helenbaby wrote:}{quote}
> I apologize to those I've offended, including Fred C. Dobbs. I just felt like I needed to stand up for TCM's side on this issue and I've afraid I've gone a little overboard in this post. But that's where I'm coming from.
But, as your post perfectly demonstrates, sometimes people just need to vent....
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There was an article in NYT not too long ago that established that Robert does, in fact, live in the Big Apple.
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> {quote:title=FrankGrimes wrote:}{quote}
> The news of Criterion possibly releasing some Max Ophuls films is very exciting to me. Thanks for the heads-up, FilmLover.
I am also excited!! Thanks for the update, filmlover
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> {quote:title=rainingviolets21 wrote:}{quote}
> Great job done in Scaramouche, your credited with
> being part of the longest swordfighting scene (20 minutes)
> ever filmed...R.I.P. job well done..
I loved him in *Scaramouche* ! :x
Hope they'll have a chance to schedule a Mel Ferrer tribute.
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> {quote:title=tobitz wrote:}{quote}
> This a movie I've heard of all my life, one I've always considered "classic," and one I've never seen. I was surprised to hear it hadn't been shown on tv in fifteen years, and even more surprised to see there'd been no dvd release. I'd never thought of it as "rare" until now. It obviously is.
Just a small note - the film has not yet been released on DVD in North America. It came out some time ago in the UK, as a Region-2 DVD.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080603/ap_en_ce/obit_ferrer
Mel Ferrer, actor-director, husband of Audrey Hepburn, dies
By BOB THOMAS
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES - A family spokesman says actor-director-producer Mel Ferrer, who starred in scores of movies and directed his late wife, Audrey Hepburn in numerous others, has died at age 90.
Mike Mena says Ferrer died Monday at his ranch near Santa Barbara, surrounded by family and friends.
Known for his good looks, Ferrer starred in such films as "Lili," "War and Peace" and "The Sun Also Rises.
In 1967, he produced the film classic "Wait Until Dark," a terrifying thriller in which Hepburn played a blind woman terrorized in her apartment by drug dealers.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080603/ap_en_ce/obit_ferrer
*Mel Ferrer, actor-director, husband of Audrey Hepburn, dies*
By BOB THOMAS
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES - A family spokesman says actor-director-producer Mel Ferrer, who starred in scores of movies and directed his late wife, Audrey Hepburn in numerous others, has died at age 90.
Mike Mena says Ferrer died Monday at his ranch near Santa Barbara, surrounded by family and friends.
Known for his good looks, Ferrer starred in such films as "Lili," "War and Peace" and "The Sun Also Rises.
In 1967, he produced the film classic "Wait Until Dark," a terrifying thriller in which Hepburn played a blind woman terrorized in her apartment by drug dealers.
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As much as it baffles me that Paramount would rather license some of its library titles to Criterion or Legend Films, instead of releasing them through their own home-video arm, I'm just happy some of these movies are getting released on DVD at all.
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Happy B-Day, Tony Curtis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(Born June 3, 1925)
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I thought this was important enough to merit a thread of its own... the small video company Legend Films has apparently signed a deal with Paramount Pictures to release a number of movies from the Paramount library that Paramount apparently is not interested in releasing.
Some titles are relatively recent (1990's *Almost an Angel* ) but a lot are from earlier decades... here is an article from the NYT that includes more information and titles:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/movies/homevideo/03dvd.html?
*New DVDs: An Antiwar Farce and a Vintage Paramount Collection*
By DAVE KEHR
LEGEND FILMS?
Paramount Collection
Up to now Legend Films has been a company mainly known for its colorization technology. (Ray Harryhausen used its system to apply a wash of tints to his 1957 ?20 Million Miles to Earth.?) But Legend also has a DVD division that has just grown larger with the licensing of 32 vintage titles from Paramount Pictures, a welcome development in light of Paramount?s apparent reluctance to exploit its studio library. And none of these Paramount-Legend films, this purist notes with relief, are in need of the company?s primary service: all were originally filmed in color, a few even in the glorious three-strip Technicolor process.
The first batch of 16 titles comes out today, and it?s an extremely mixed bag, whose jumbled contents include the cringe-inducing Paul Hogan comedy ?Almost an Angel? (1990) and Michael Campus?s confused science fiction thriller ?Z.P.G.? (a k a ?Zero Population Growth,? 1972). Other curios are Frank Pierson?s ?King of the Gypsies,? which propels viewers back to that distant time (1978) when Eric Roberts was a star and his little sister Julia was still in grade school; Ennio De Concini?s ?Hitler: The Last Ten Days? (1973), featuring a fastidious portrayal of the title personage by a pre-Obi-Wan Alec Guinness; and Michael Pressman?s 1982 ?Some Kind of Hero,? with Richard Pryor in a rare dramatic role as a floundering Vietnam veteran.
As a movie, it isn?t much, but George Marshall?s ?Houdini? (1953) offers the star couple Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh ? the Brangelina of their day ? at the height of their physical perfection in a fictionalized version of the life of that celebrated escape artist. And ?The Skull,? a largely forgotten 1965 British horror film that brings together Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee and the director Freddie Francis, proves to be an unexpectedly lively offering, with a bloodthirsty flying skull (that of the Marquis de Sade, no less) that cries out for 3-D treatment.
The big title in this first group is Richard Fleischer?s 1975 ?Mandingo,? a back-alley parody of ?Gone With the Wind? based on a lascivious 1957 best seller by Kyle Onstott. All that dewy-eyed antebellum melodramas so carefully repress returns here with a vengeance. James Mason, wallowing in a deep Dixie accent, is Warren Maxwell, the run-down proprietor of a run-down plantation whose two great concerns in life are finding appropriate breeding partners for his prize female slave, Ellen (Brenda Sykes), and his only son, an Adonis with a gimpy leg played by Perry King.
Maxwell?s efforts at human husbandry go luridly awry when the partner he finds for Ellen ? the former heavyweight champion Ken Norton as a fighting slave ? begins a culturally unthinkable relationship with a not-so-shrinking Southern belle, played by the British actress Susan George. With its scenes of incest and infanticide (at no additional charge), ?Mandingo? can hardly be accused of taking a sober, dignified approach to its subject, but when the historical context is itself obscene, transgressions are justified. That the film is still a hot potato more than three decades after it was made is a tribute to its undiminished power to provoke.
Legend?s next group of Paramount titles comes out on July 1, and will include Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in ?Money From Home,? one of the films mysteriously missing from Paramount?s two excellent Martin and Lewis boxed sets. There are no extras apart from trailers, but with a list price of $14.95 each, there is little reason for complaint. A list of titles and ratings is at legendfilms.com.
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From what I understand, it has NOTHING to do with "clearing the rights". They obviously wouldn't have put them on the schedule if they hadn't cleared the rights.
It's a matter of getting good digital masters that can be used for broadcasting. Many times they license a movie and they are assured that the digital master is ready, and for reasons beyond their control it ends up not being ready or being damaged.
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Just watched THE BIG SKY... glad Kirk Douglas is still with us
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I'd recorded it a week and a half ago but didn't get to watch it until this weekend. I really liked this fine Howard Hawks western, which sadly is not available on home video at the moment.
TCM was able to show the long cut (141 mins.) even though the movie is sometimes shown in a shorter, 2-hr. version. I think if you look closely you can see some pretty big variations in the source material that was used.
Kirk Douglas, as always, is excellent. B-)
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Well I always did suspect that CineSage was the Conscience of Hollywood.
I really do hope the fire was NOT an inside job or something, tho. It would be very sad.
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I hope nothing irreplaceable will be lost in the fire, hopefully all the negatives and all the important classic films are either in another location or just somewhere that is completely fire-proof.
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A Richard Attenborough "Screen Idols" collection has just been announced in the UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0019GJ406/
The 5-disc set includes THE SHIP THAT DIED OF SHAME, BRIGHTON ROCK, DUNKIRK, THE MAN UPSTAIRS and ANGRY SILENCE.
Keira Knightley to star in 'Fair Lady' remake?
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> {quote:title=Hibi wrote:}{quote}
> Will she be dubbed too? I dont see how they could afford to make it. Didnt the original cost 20 million in 1964 dollars? Would think that would be 200 today.........
CGI?